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The fact that Houston, TX has essentially no zoning laws makes it a nightmare to get around the city, but it also made it possible for John Milkovisch to cover his roof with flattend beer cans and decorate the front porch with strings of can tops and tabs (you really have to check-out the pictures).

The lack of government regulation made this artistic achievment possible. Was Mr. Milkovisch a champion of free market aesthetics or just a drunk guy with too much time on his hands?

I leave this question for y'all to discuss. I don't know the answer myself, but either way, I salute him!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/us/07beer.html

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So much energy wasted.

Instead, he could have invested the time and neurons in finding new ways of shooting himself in the head.

Just an example.

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Originally posted by Seitse
So much energy wasted.

Instead, he could have invested the time and neurons in finding new ways of shooting himself in the head.

Just an example.
Nonsense! He is a hero to anyone who finds it worthwhile to cultivate his own dwelling in a manner that reflects his interests. He may not have changed the world, but he took what he had and made it more beautiful.

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Heroes are more valuable to history when dead.

Let's encourage this "hero" to do it.

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Originally posted by bjohnson407
The fact that Houston, TX has essentially no zoning laws makes it a nightmare to get around the city, but it also made it possible for John Milkovisch to cover his roof with flattend beer cans and decorate the front porch with strings of can tops and tabs (you really have to check-out the pictures).

The lack of government regulation made this artistic ...[text shortened]... swer myself, but either way, I salute him!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/us/07beer.html
20 years is a long time but then 20 years with nothing to show is even longer. The sound created by those must have become a familiar music of 'home' to the family as they walked up the path and when the house was quiet.

Beats watching TV!

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Originally posted by Seitse
Heroes are more valuable to history when dead.

Let's encourage this "hero" to do it.
Oh. He died in the late eighties. The article is about how his home is now open to the public and dedicated as a "folk art monument" after a seven year "restoration project."

His work belongs to the ages...

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Maybe HE is John Gault! Just a thought...